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"Cissy!"

The blonde looked up, letting her quill fall from her fingers. She quickly snatched the piece of parchment she had been writing on from the table, rolling it up and stuffing it into the bag.

"What was that?"

"What was what?"

"Whatever you were writing."

"Oh, nothing. Just some extra credit for Slughorn."

The black haired intruder raised her eyebrow questioningly, but let the obvious lie pass.

"Anyway, happy Christmas. Mum asked me to tell you to visit the post office today, to pick up your present."

Cissy rolled her eyes.

"Couldn't she have sent it to Hogwarts?"

"You know how she is about the Hogwarts house elves. Between us, she's right. I didn't have Rodolphus's present in my pile this morning."

"What makes you think he sent you one?"

"Well, hello, he's going to marry me. Shouldn't that be reason enough?"

Cissy shrugged, but said nothing. Personally, she wasn't a big fan of the whole your-parents-choose-your-husband system, but it was useless arguing with Bella over it. Better say nothing, and hope she'll change subject soon.

"Where's Andy?"

"I have no idea. She was out as soon as she finished unwrapping her gifts."

They were both silent. Narcissa was restless, pacing the room, occasionally making for her bag, and then stopping in mid step, changing her mind. Bellatrix was at home in her sister's dormitory, stretched out on one of the beds with the Christmas edition of Witch Weekly in her hand.

"You had breakfast yet?" Narcissa asked eagerly, as if hoping for a chance to escape, or, more probably, get rid of her sister.

"Yeah, I have. That idiot Carrow girl woke me up early, so I thought I might as well go up and eat."

"Oh. Well, I haven't eaten, actually, so I think I'll go up now. See you!"

She grabbed her bag and made for the doorway, consequently bumping into a red something that had zoomed through the same doorway just as she had.

"Oh, sorry Cissy! Need a hand?"

The red something, which had taken the shape of a red haired young woman, wearing a red cloak over a red blouse and red skirt, offered a hand to her fallen sister. Unfortunately, the package in her hands was rather too big and bulky for just one hand, and it fell to the floor.

Her first reaction to the rather loud thump was to reach for her wand. As her right hand flew to her pocket, Cissy once again fell to the floor, seeing as the hand she had just grabbed was Andy's right one.

"Oh, Cissy, so sorry! I- here-"

Her hand was once again offered, but Narcissa decided to get up on her own this time. A few seconds and order was once again restored. Cissy sat on the bed, applying some ointment to her bruises, Bella was reading some article about decorating your house, and Andy was ripping off the paper from her package.

"Cissy, this is for you, and Bella, for you."

She handed each a small, rectangular present wrapped in green, which had been enclosed in the larger package.

"They're from Mum. I know she doesn't like the house elves, so I figured she'd send these to the post office. And I wanted to get them early, because I have plans for the rest of the day, and I was up anyways, and sitting around is no fun, but neither is homework, and I didn't have anything else to do, so I figured I might as well go to the post office. So I went, and picked up the presents, and then I met up with some friends, so we were in Zonko's for awhile, and then I figured I'd come back and give you these. And here I am."

Throughout this speech the other two had been unwrapping their gifts, and these had been found to be, to the disappointment of both, books. Narcissa scowled, and Bellatrix shot her a glare.

"Nice books, these.'Wizard Families of the 20th Century', sounds riveting."

Andromeda rolled her eyes, and Narcissa nodded. A book like that wouldn't be much good to Bella, she might as well have written it. But that was Bella, insisting on acting pleased, as if they were their mother.

Cissy placed her book in the neat pile of presents she had arranged at the foot of her bed, and grabbed her bag.

"Anyways, I'm going to go grab breakfast. Andy, coming?"

"No thanks, I already had breakfast. I need to get ready for my date with Evan. I couldn't dream of going dressed like this, red is so not my color, it looks horrible with my hair. But I was in a hurry this morning, and I didn't really feel like picking out some nicely matching outfit, so-"

"Evan?" Bellatrix raised hey eyes, looking questioningly ate her red haired sister.

"Evan Rosier, fifth year, dark brown hair, he's in the Charms Club… I know he's a bit of a nerd, but he asked me to Hogsmeade, and he's really hot… And after him I'm seeing Walden Macnair, which totally makes up for it, don't you think?""

"I know who he is. But why are you going on a date with him?"

"Why shouldn't I? He's a year younger than me, sure, but that's not so bad. Did you know, Goyle from seventh year is going out with Gibbon, and she's only in fourth year. What difference does it make if I'm in sixth and he's in fifth?"

"That's not what I meant."

"Then what do you- Oh, it's your whole you-will-be-married-to-Rabastan-so-start-acting-it thing, yeah? I wish you'd leave me alone about that. I know I'm going to marry him, but that doesn't mean I can't have some fun until it happens, does it?"

Bellatrix sighed, and was silent. Arguing with Andromeda was impossible.

"Well, have fun Andy. And Bella, you too, whatever it is you're doing today. I'm off to breakfast and maybe the library after that. Bye!"

Narcissa grabbed her bag and dashed out, stopping only to throw a "Merry Christmas!" at a group of her friends in the common room.

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AN;; So, I know this chapter is a bit boring. But it's a sort of introduction, if you will, promise next chapters will be a bit more eventful.

And also, before I get any angry reviews, I'm aware that Andromeda is supposed to have light brown hair, look a lot like Bellatrix, and be two years younger than Bellatrix and two years older than Narcissa. But, I didn't really feel like doing it that way, so Andromeda is red haired, Narcissa and Andromeda are twins, and Bellatrix is one year older than them. Hate me for it? Deal with it.

So, that's it for this long AN. Review and be loved!